Data Scientist II

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $130k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Axle Informatics

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501 - 1000 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🏥 Healthcare

🔬 Science

Biotechnology • Healthcare • Science

Axle Informatics is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, health informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations around the globe. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we develop and apply research tools and techniques that empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by offering the responsiveness of a small business coupled with the experience, breadth, and depth of a large organization.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for genomic, transcriptomic, single-cell, spatial, proteomic, metagenomic, metabolomic, and clinical datasets • Develop reusable transformation logic and curated datasets for analytics, dashboards, APIs, notebooks, and downstream research workflows • Support bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, and Digital Spatial Profiling analysis workflows, including QC, differential expression, clustering, annotation, normalization, spatial deconvolution, plots, and heatmaps • Enable data ingestion, curation, metadata capture, source-to-target mapping, schema management, provenance tracking, and long-term data-product maintainability • Apply statistical modeling and machine-learning methods to biomedical datasets, including hypothesis testing, regression, clustering, PCA, UMAP, t-SNE, and classification • Incorporate AI/LLM-based extraction where appropriate with validation and stakeholder communication • Build and support interactive dashboards, notebooks, reports, APIs, and research visualizations • Collaborate with NCI scientists, bioinformaticians, clinician-researchers, data engineers, software developers, and government stakeholders • Translate scientific needs into technical specifications, data models, and reusable workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Biological Sciences, or a related field, or equivalent experience • Demonstrated experience in a data-intensive role supporting biomedical research or scientific computing • Strong proficiency in Python and R for analysis, scripting, and visualization • Hands-on experience with at least two omics data types • Solid understanding of statistical modeling, dimensionality reduction, clustering, differential expression, and pathway analysis • Ability to work with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across relational and data lake environments • Strong problem-solving skills • Ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to translate scientific needs into technical solutions and articulate risks, assumptions, and limitations • Genuine interest in biomedical and translational research • Ability to learn domain-specific terminology and workflows • Awareness of data governance, privacy, and compliance requirements for clinical and research data

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees • Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays • 401K match up to 5% • Educational Benefits for Career Growth • Employee Referral Bonus • Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK) • Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP) • Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)